‘Today I sit here a little melancholy and homesick for my family. Distance between people that love each other, always feels like a waste. It’s like having a million dollars, but not being able to access it’.
I just read the most beautiful post in the Shutter Sisters blog and she described exactly how I feel. I know as you get older and your children make their own way you are to be happy for them and their independence. But you know it is hard, you just miss them, you don’t really know what is going on in the lives….. the day to day things. There is much excitement when we receive an email from the girls and we talk about it for days. I got a message from Penny on my blog this morning and I am so curious to know why it took 10 hours for a round trip to the markets.
My older girls have promised when they stop travelling the world that Canberra will be their home, Adam and his beautiful wife Suzy talk about going back to Canberra and my beloved is in Canberra today and he rang me to describe the frost on the ground, the crisp air and the snow on the mountain. I felt ‘homesick’ but am I hankering for a life that does not exist anymore, our three older children grew up there and we did not leave until they went to high school. I know that the city has changed but I think that it is still bascially ‘Canberra’, where people talk about politics, where there are things to do every weekend, where wonderful old friends live, where you have the four seasons of the year and where you don’t have to worry if you to the shop in your ‘ugg’ boots. Do you think that I am kidding myself?
The mosaic in front of parliament house.
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power will be shut off in a few minutes but i just wanted to let you know - i am thinking of you and miss you too. market 10 hours away, i will have to tell you on the phone, he had to take an emergency patient on the way and it involved two bags of rice - all very complicated, the trip ended up being 12 hours. tomorrow the office plays the police in socor and tomorrow night it is off to a formal party at the UN miltary (happens once in a very rare blue moon). can we talk on the phone tomorrow. love you lots xoxox
Oh Sandra, my heart aches in resonance with you! It’s different without “them” home with us, isn’t it. I suppose it gives a chance to be just us - that person we would have been if our lives hadn’t changed so much when we became parents. It is a wonderful thing that your children are experiencing so much in the world.
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